Abstract :
Genesis of survey. During the past six months, a cross section of computer professionals, including most of the chairmen of the Computer Society´s technical committees and several other society members, was interviewed with the objective of summarizing their assessment of the major developments in computer technology. (The names of those consulted are listed on p. 75.) Attention was concentrated on the principal recent developments in the computer field and on the major problems that stand in the way of future progress.
